Werther review – Massenet’s dark emotions evoked with passion

Royal Opera House, London
Antonio Pappano and the ROH orchestra outshine the drama in this atmospheric revival of Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 productionCarefully rehearsed by Andrew Sinclair, the current revival of French film director Benoît Jacquot’s 2004 production of Massenet’s opera, founded on Goethe’s epistolary novel, is one of the Royal Opera’s more traditional stagings. It retains the 18th-century look of the original text both in Charles Edwards&rs